Artificial Intelligence Industry News

AI Business Weekly – February 13, 2026: Behavioral Prediction, Municipal AI Labs, and Industry War Over Regulation Reshape Competitive Landscape

Five stories revealing how AI moves from research labs to city halls, courtrooms, and trash trucks while tech giants battle over the rules that will govern the industry's future

Hauler Hero Raises $16M Series A to Build AI-Powered Operating System for $145B Waste Management Industry

Anthropic Donates $20M to Pro-Regulation Super PAC, Escalating AI Policy Battle Against OpenAI-Backed Groups

Google Gemini Hit with 100,000+ Prompts in Sophisticated AI Cloning Attack by Commercial Actors

Montreal Opens Downtown AI Lab to Monitor Construction Sites and Test Smart City Solutions

Simile Raises $100M to Build AI That Predicts Human Behavior for Earnings Calls and Customer Decisions

AI Business Weekly – February 12, 2026: Humanoid Robots Reach Factories as Foundation Model Valuations Double and Policy Picks Winners

Five stories showing how physical AI deployment, surging foundation model funding, and government intervention reshape competitive dynamics from labs to factory floors

OpenAI O3 Scores 96.7% on Math Olympiad Problems That Stump Most Humans

O3 achieves near-perfect performance on AIME, outscoring 99% of human competitors but revealing where AI math reasoning still falls short

Why OpenAI Released a Weaker Version of O3 (And Kept the Best One Private)

The O3 you can use costs pennies per query but performs far worse than the December demo version that costs $34,400 per task

OpenAI O3 Destroys Every AI Benchmark: Here's the One Test It Failed

O3 achieved record-breaking scores on reasoning tests but revealed a critical weakness on real-world math problems